European Procurement Law Group

On 10 May 2022, EPLG members Mario E. Comba, Roberto Caranta, Carina Risvig Hamer and Albert Sanchez-Graells will lecture on the topic “Procurement and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities” at the International Conference on Administrative Law organized by the University of Eastern Piedmont (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and CERIDAP, the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Public Administration of the University of Milan. During the first session Mario Comba will offer an overview of central purchasing bodies in the European Union, while Carina Risvig Hamer, Roberto Caranta, and Albert Sanchez-Graells will participate in a round table discussion during the second session. During the Conference, the book “Centralising Public Procurement“, edited by Carina…

The third Advanced Training Course (ATC) organized by SAPIENS Network and University of Rome “Tor Vergata” will take place in Rome from 6 to 8 April. The event includes lectures by distinguished professors and procurement experts and will focus on the role and the perspectives of actors involved in developing Sustainable Public Procurement rules and best practices across the globe. The ATC will be relevant for early-stage researchers such as PhDs and postdocs, practitioners interested in procurement and sustainability such as representatives of contracting authorities, central purchasing bodies, procurement agencies, governmental procurement departments, other procurement professionals. More information, agenda and registration for the event here.

The APMEP – Associação Portuguesa dos Mercados Públicos (Portuguese Society of Public Markets) organizes the 5th European Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement that will take place on 5-6 May 2022 in Lisbon. Among the confirmed Invited Plenary Speakers there are EPLG members Professors Marta Andhov, François Lichère and Roberto Caranta, who will chair the Conference together with Professor Luís Valadares Tavares. The Program has the following major sessions including an initial keynote speech, presentation and discussion of submitted papers: A – COP26 and New Challenges for SPP B – Sustainable Design and Construction Procurement C – SPP Using New procedures of Directives 2014 D – ICT Sustainable…

The Legal Publisher Lexxion organizes the 1st Annual Public Procurement Council, to be held online on 9 February 2022 at 9.00 a.m CET. The event will benefit from the participation of the board of the European Public Procurement and Public Private Partnerships Law Journal, who have been thought leaders in European public procurement law for decades. EPLG member Professor Dacian Dragos will give a keynote in the first session on “Probity in Public Procurement, including Procurement Audit”. The discussion will offer a deep dive into the most recent developments in the field of Public Procurement, covering theory, practice and case law. To register and see the event detailed program…

On 1st December 2021, Associate Professor and EPLG member Marta Andhov, contributed to the public hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection in association with the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety titled  ‘Sustainable public procurement: using the full potential of public buying to achieve goals of the European Green Deal.’ At the hearing, Prof. Marta Andhov gave her view of regulatory issues concerning SPP and stressed the need of revisiting the fundamentals. She highlighted the importance of balancing the internal market and sustainability objectives of the Union. In particular, the internal market in 2021-2022 must truly encapsulate the ‘social market economy’…

On 3 December 2021, the Eurosystem Procurement Coordination Office (EPCO) held the 2021 EPCO Public Procurement (Virtual) Conference. During the morning session, Carina Risvig Hamer, Associate Professor at the Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, gave a presentation on “Joint Procurement and Centralised Purchasing – Different Approaches in the EU Member States”. Professor Hamer is currently the research manager of a large research project on Central purchasing bodies (CPBs), funded by the Independent research fund, Denmark. She has a long of publications and is co-editor of a book on CPBs and Centralised Purchasing.  

We are inviting you to participate in the second SAPIENS Network’s Advanced Training Course (ATC 2). In this ATC, SAPIENS is covering the notion of the circular economy (CE) and its effect on SPP with a focus on SDG 12 – Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), including a hands-on workshop on enhancing GPP through CE and a Round table with representatives of European Institutions. This course allow the Early Stage Researchers to develop a deep insight to create a foundation for their future careers ranging from academia to policy and law-making and to preparation and delivery of SPP solutions and tools capable of contributing to the achievement of the…